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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which child is not told upon arriving home from school that Mother is dead?
(a) Jack.
(b) Sue.
(c) Julie.
(d) Tom.

2. Who gives up teeth brushing to rebel?
(a) Tom.
(b) Sue.
(c) Julie.
(d) Jack.

3. What do Jack and Julie wrap their Mother in to carry her body downstairs?
(a) A sheet.
(b) A tarp.
(c) Empty cement bags.
(d) An old tent.

4. Who is stripped and examined by kids as part of a game?
(a) Julie.
(b) Jack.
(c) Sue.
(d) Tom.

5. Who is Jack holding when he falls asleep on the night Mother dies?
(a) Julie.
(b) Tom.
(c) Derek.
(d) Sue.

6. How many men show up at Jack's house with a delivery?
(a) 5.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 12.

7. What is the subject of the serious talk that Jack gets at the beginning of Chapter 3?
(a) Masturbation.
(b) Finances.
(c) Girls.
(d) Getting a job.

8. The day after Mother's death, who thinks they should tell someone?
(a) Sue.
(b) Julie.
(c) Tom.
(d) Jack.

9. Why is Jack told to stop his activity in the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) It isn't fair.
(b) It's an invasion of privacy.
(c) Mother is getting a headache.
(d) No one wants to see him.

10. What do Tom and Jack help their father move?
(a) Bags of fertilizer.
(b) Heavy cement blocks.
(c) Cement bags.
(d) Lots of weeds and debris from the garden.

11. Which character hangs out with bad girls?
(a) Tom.
(b) Sue.
(c) Jack.
(d) Julie.

12. Who is Jack?
(a) The narrator.
(b) The oldest sibling.
(c) The youngest brother.
(d) A delivery guy.

13. Why don't the children bury Mother in their garden?
(a) It would be too conspicuous.
(b) There's no room in the garden.
(c) They hate the garden.
(d) They can't carry her that far.

14. What is Jack doing as he plots what to do with Mother's body?
(a) Reading.
(b) Singing.
(c) Masturbating.
(d) Crying.

15. What is Jack looking at in the garden in the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) Gutted and abandoned pre-fab.
(b) His book.
(c) A dead frog.
(d) Julie sunbathing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the first to tell someone that Mother has died?

2. Who volunteers to accompany Mother on her trips to the shops?

3. Who begins to resist the family game?

4. What does Jack do after the ambulance takes his father?

5. Who develops a special relationship with Mother as she gets sicker?

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